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Ctrl+Alt+F1 = Problems Ubuntu 12.04 LTS

Hey all! I've been using Ubuntu 12.04 LTS for almost a month now and I love it! I wanted to start playing some old Steam games on it, but I have out of date drivers, so I get an error message at Steam's launch. I am using a GeForce 6200. To update my drivers, I went to the nVidia website and got the latest drivers for my system. The only way I could get them was as a .run file. I executed them in terminal as described on the Ubuntu website and got error messages about the X environment and such. I learned that I had to use Ctrl + Alt + F1 to go to a command line and exit the GUI. When I pressed those keys, the screen flickered and had lines all over it. I couldn't do anything except Ctrl + Alt + F7. That took me back to the desktop GUI, but the background had the same lines from the "command line" screen. It stayed like that until I did a reboot. I tried updating everything, no help. I had no programs running. I also tried the terminal command "sudo service lightdm stop" didn't help, same lines on the screen.

Re: Ctrl+Alt+F1 = Problems Ubuntu 12.04 LTS

When I did exactly what you said and rebooted after installing the experimental drivers, Ubuntu couldn't startup. I get a black screen. I can go into the recovery console by holding shift if there is a way to fix this problem.

Re: Ctrl+Alt+F1 = Problems Ubuntu 12.04 LTS

Well, uninstalling the old drivers in recovery mode and then re installing the current normal drivers through terminal worked! I can run steam and it shows up in additional drivers! I still can't use Ctrl Alt F1. This is what it looks like (See attachment) photo.JPG
Thanks for helping!